Guys,
I don't want to be a ball buster or anything like that but I see whats going on here. I put the blame on CCDL Blog here in Connecticut for telling the gun owners to register when the meetings held place, and the lawyers saying to stay within the law thinking that the courts will resolve this, it was a sham and the government of Connecticut had it fixed with the judge panel they did when it was in the courts and they combined New York State in it too. NOBODY should have registered their guns and mags it should have been a 100% non compliance. PERIOD!!!
I can't believe the populace is so blind. Thats what Hitler said to register the guns because of the children.....They are doing in incremental steps, chipping it here and there until we don't have a 2nd amendment. I remember I had a thread when Connecticut had to register the guns and I said I would not do it and would move my guns out of state leave them with a friend or put them in a storage unit. I am glad I took that decision.
The 10% that did register their guns and mags have to options when SHTF here either move out of state or turn your mags and guns to state police. When they put a law in place like Maryland that only police and military can own a semi-automatic rifle.
This is also a message for the citizens in others states.. DO NOT REGISTER, DO NOT COMPLY. PERIOD!!!!
This displays a fundamental ignorance of CT law prior to the 2013 AWB.
Whenever you purchase a firearm from a dealer a DPS-3 form is completed. That is sent to the DESPP who enters the info into a database.
If you bought any kind of banned firearm from a dealer prior to the 2013 ban, THEY ALREADY KNOW YOU HAVE IT.
In that case, there is no reason not to register it. They know you have it, why not register it?? So you can tell your friends what a tough guy you are?? Refusing to register does NOTHING.
If you were smart and didn't have a lot of money, you purchased a banned firearm in a private sale prior to PA13-3's passage. A private sale of any long gun in CT, even AWs did not require any paperwork.
The resulting gun needed to be registered to remain legal, but at least there could be some justification for not registering, since the Government didn't know you owned it.
If you had the bucks, purchasing a pre-94 gun that was affected by the AW ban, privately without any paperwork, would be legal and the resulting gun would be legal to keep with no registration.
This would cost you. But you would have an invisible gun that was legal to possess.
Don